The Involvement of Iraq is a Lesson the US Need to Learn Since the end of World War II, the US have been intervening on the region and country of the Middle East more than anywhere else in the world. Americans consider the Middle East as a luxurious region to settle due to the high quantity of oil found in that region. Despite the vast amount of economic and political change to many Arab country doing that period, The US created different foreign policy. These different policies have seemed as if these Arab countries were the puppet and the US are there master. As of Today, The US had intervened two different type of war in the Middle East. The first one was trying to stop the Soviets from spreading communism into Arab country. The second being the war on terror and war to overthrow dictatorship government. Yet despite all these involvements, Many Americans starts to raise question about our foreign policy of the Middle East. Critics think that we are too overly involve the different type of war that has happen in the Middle East. Today, The Syrian War is the latest dilemma of yet another political change in the Arab country and a war on terror. Many Americans think the US should not intervene with Syria and sent Military action to deal with the Syrian War. I strongly agree with this argument based on some of our past involvement and policy that have end in either catastrophic failure or just a waste of time. Firstly, If the US get involved with the Syrian War and try to overthrow Syrian President Bashad Al-Assad with military action, they clearly didn’t learn from their mistake with the involvement of the Iraq War. While many Americans though the war on Iraq was a direct response to the attack of 9/11 and al Qaeda itself. The War was about overthrowing Iraq president Saddam Hussein who created a series of weapon mass destruction and quantity of human rights abused on his own people. However, the war which look to end quickly after the capture of Saddam Hussein in December of 2003 turn even more violent than it was when Hussein was in power. Iraqi Insurgent force in Iraq quickly expanded starting in 2004 and the US starts to fight the Iraqi Insurgent force. It wasn’t until another 7 years before the US start to withdrawing troops in Iraq. A Senior Commander, Daniel Bolger that fought in the Iraq War describe in a New York Times Op-ed, the American surges on Iraq didn’t gain anything and rather the surge end in stalemates because the military stop setting troops to Iraq. “The surge in Iraq did not “win” anything. It bought time. It allowed us to kill some more bad guys and feel better about ourselves. But in the end, shackled to a corrupt, sectarian government in Baghdad and hobbled by our Americans’ unwillingness to commit to a fight lasting decades, the surge just forestalled today’s stalemate.” Bolger also mention how his group of solider didn’t understand what the Iraqi insurgent was doing which understate the lack of knowledge and military tactics that the Americans military need to win the war. The other reason why military intervention on Syria will be a bad idea is that it will create even more destruction and causalities to the Syrian civilians than what already is the bloodiest war in the 21st century.
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Going back to the Iraq War, After Hussein was captured; the citizen in Iraq ironically did not gain any resources and freedom. In a Huffington Post article by Daniel Raphael, 8 percent of Iraqi children are malnourished, and 70 percent lack clean drinking water. This ironically was worse than 2003 when the Iraq War begin. The Causalities after Hussein was capture also staggering. After 2003, when the Iraq war start to kick in gear, they were estimated over 151,000 to 1 million Iraqis. On the other hand, some would say that under the Obama administration, the peace talk and ceasefire agreement with the Assad regime and Russia has been atrocious. These talk always tend to lead to a dead end and the war will continue to drag on if we continue to
Going back to the Iraq War, After Hussein was captured; the citizen in Iraq ironically did not gain any resources and freedom. In a Huffington Post article by Daniel Raphael, 8 percent of Iraqi children are malnourished, and 70 percent lack clean drinking water. This ironically was worse than 2003 when the Iraq War begin. The Causalities after Hussein was capture also staggering. After 2003, when the Iraq war start to kick in gear, they were estimated over 151,000 to 1 million Iraqis. On the other hand, some would say that under the Obama administration, the peace talk and ceasefire agreement with the Assad regime and Russia has been atrocious. These talk always tend to lead to a dead end and the war will continue to drag on if we continue to